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California Governor Gavin Newsom has reached a deal with Anthropic to offer its Claude AI chatbot at a 50% discount to state agencies and local governments, aiming to boost adoption and improve government efficiency. The…
Researchers from an undisclosed institution conducted a systematic study of LLM agent memory systems, evaluating 12 systems across 11 datasets. They found no single architecture dominates, with effectiveness depending on…
In a 2016 analysis, the author argues that autonomous reinforcement-learning AIs (Agent AIs) will inevitably surpass purely computational AIs (Tool AIs) in both intelligence and economic value, making the restriction of …
Air Canada was ordered to pay CAD $812.02 in damages after its chatbot provided false bereavement fare information, and attorney Steven Schwartz was fined $5,000 for submitting a legal brief with fabricated cases generat…
A Boston University study found that treating AI agents as "employees" rather than tools leads human workers to catch 18% fewer errors and offload accountability. Researchers warn that marketing AI as digital coworkers s…
Nylas introduces an outbound Rule feature for its Agent Accounts that acts as a server-side data-loss prevention layer, blocking emails to denied recipients even when application-level checks fail. The rule evaluates rec…
Palantir and Nvidia are partnering to develop a new AI platform for government agencies, aiming to shift control of AI systems from contractors to the government itself. The collaboration combines Palantir's data integra…
This summer's extreme heat has exposed critical vulnerabilities in global data centers, with PJM Interconnection receiving emergency authorization to curtail power in Virginia, French nuclear plants shutting down at 44.3…
A lawyer at a legal tech startup quit because her boss became obsessed with AI, using ChatGPT to make all company decisions including hiring and firing, and mandating employees consult the AI before any communication. Th…
Nearly 400 local newspapers across 33 states sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York, alleging the companies illegally scraped copyrighted articles—including paywalled content—to train AI models without co…
A new category of cognitive mistake called 'frame errors' is introduced, distinct from logical fallacies and empirical errors, where a correct inference based on accurate facts can still be wrong due to an inadequate rea…
Google is warning that the European Union's Digital Markets Act, which would force the company to open its search data and Android operating system to competitors, will lead to increased fraud and security risks. Critics…
PAR Technology Corporation built a multi-tenant LLM analytics system on AWS that enforces row-level security through a three-layer architecture using cryptographic request signing, semantic validation on Amazon Bedrock, …
A developer released AST-guard, an open-source tool that uses deterministic abstract syntax tree analysis to detect reward hacking in AI-generated code, achieving 96.2% recall on a benchmark of reward hacks while remaini…
The US government suspended access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12 under an export control directive, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disabled the models for all customers to comply,…
Ford Motor Company hired 350 veteran engineers, dubbed 'gray beards,' over the past three years to train junior staff and fix ineffective AI tools after realizing AI's limitations. The move helped Ford reduce recalls and…
The Golden State Valkyries have held top WNBA guards like Sabrina Ionescu, Caitlin Clark, and Paige Bueckers to well below their averages, using a trio of relentless defenders—Kaila Charles, Gabby Williams, and Veronica …
Tenet Security disclosed a new attack vector called Agentjacking on June 12, which hijacks AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex with an 85% success rate by injecting crafted fake error reports through exp…
Grantmaking.ai launched a $1M grant round for projects reducing existential risk from AI, offering $5k to $50k per application. Applications are reviewed by Gavin Leech, Ryan Kidd, and Marcus Abramovitch, with priority r…
AI will worsen biological extinction risks in the near term by accelerating scientific progress, enabling the development of extinction-level pathogens sooner, even if AI models refuse to assist directly. The argument th…